Johann Thomas Lamminger

" Dedication and preface " Lamminger's first address book in Hanover 1798

Johann Thomas Lamminger (* 1. June 1757 in Erlangen , † 6. January 1805 in Hannover ) was a German soldier in the Revolutionary War , ( Hof - Book -) printer and publisher in Hanover.

Life

Born in Erlangen as the son of a soldier, Johann Thomas Lamminger fought in a German regiment in the American War of Independence on the side of the British colonial power . After his return to Germany he found work in Hanover for the court printer Georg Heinrich Reuther . After a while, his widow Reuters put him in charge of the business - and married Lamminger in 1785.

Authorized in this way, Lamminger expanded the business in various ways, for example setting up his own sheet music printing plant and a lending library . In 1798 he brought out the first address book for the city of Hanover , the data of which he himself had collected on foot and through questioning. He wrote in the foreword :

"I asked about every single resident in every house so that my company could at least come close to the desired completeness and accuracy."

Right from the start, Lamminger also recorded the Jewish residents of the then still independent town of Calenberger Neustadt and since then has published a new address book every year with a few interruptions.

After the death of the Hanoverian court printer Hieronymus Michael Pockwitz in 1799, Lamminger was awarded this title the following year , although the Prussian General Gerhard von Scharnhorst had a negative impression of him. So honored, one of his first works was the test print Wedekind’s Nekrologium des Kloster St. Michael zu Lüneburg by Anton Christian Wedekind .

Lamminger “always worked with three” printing presses at the same time, often working overtime , for which, in addition to his fixed salary as a court printer, he asked for additional remuneration in a documented application , as he “day and night. Sunday and feast day ”. He died an early death in 1805 at the age of only 47.

Lamminger's daughter, Dorothea Wilhelmine (1800-1853), later married to Carl August Ludwig Klindworth , became the mother of the pianist and conductor Karl Klindworth .

The successors

The widow, Lamminger's second wife, Sophie Lucie Bock , continued the business under the company name "Widow Lamminger" and - amid the occupation by Napoleon's troops - continued to earn the printer's salary until 1809, the same year Jérôme Bonaparte visited Hanover - which cost the city's magistrate 5,000 thalers . The salary "went out" in 1809 and the work has since been calculated according to the scope of the contract. Since Lamminger's death in 1805, the factor Karl Heinrich Theuerdank had been in charge of the letterpress typesetting, then from 1808 to 1813 Christian Rosenbusch . In 1813, Rosenbusch became the widow's partner , and since then both have operated as Widow Lamminger and Rosenbusch . After the widow died on September 1, 1836, Rosenbusch managed the company for the heirs until September 25, 1838: On that day, the deceased's grandson , Justus Christian Friedrich Klindworth , succeeded the company and has been running the company since then as “Lamminger 'Sche Buchdruckerei'. Klindworth quickly modernized the company: as early as 1840, the " Officin " was working with three newly acquired printing presses.

Works (incomplete)

1797: Johann Ludwig Hogrefe : Practical instructions for planimetric measurement of the field marks: and how the maps are to be worked out, calculated and the measurement registers to be set up , Johann Thomas Lamminger, 1797, online via Google books

literature

Karl Ludwig Grotefend : History of the book printing works in the Hanoverian and Braunschweigische Landen , ed. by Friedrich Culemann , Hanover: Hahn'sche Hof bookshop , 1840.
Jakob Franck : Lamminger, Johann Thomas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 569 f.

Web links

Commons : Johann Thomas Lamminger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jacob Frank: Lamminger, Johann Thomas. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , vol. 17, p. 569 f.
↑ Dedication and preface to the first Hanover address book.
^ Rudolf Schmidt : German booksellers. German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book trade , 1st to 6th vol .: Berlin: Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber (later: Eberswalde: Verlag von Rudolf Schmidt ), 1902–1908, here: vol. 3. Berlin / Eberswalde 1905, p 547 f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ludwig Hoerner : Foreword. In: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 , ed. from the Hannoversche Volksbank , Hannover: Reinhold, 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 .
↑ Johannes Kunisch , Michael Sikora : Gerhard von Scharnhorst , Bd. 2, Private and official writings: Chief of Staff and Reformer. Kurhannover 1795 , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2003, ISBN 3-412-16800-9 .
^ Anton Würz : Klindworth, Karl , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 12, p. 79.
^ Klaus Mlynek : Jerôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 324.

personal data
SURNAME	Lamminger, Johann Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soldier in the American War of Independence and court printer in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	gain
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1805
Place of death	Hanover

[ADB-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jacob Frank: Lamminger, Johann Thomas. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , vol. 17, p. 569 f.

[2] Dedication and preface to the first Hanover address book.

[3] Rudolf Schmidt : German booksellers. German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book trade , 1st to 6th vol .: Berlin: Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber (later: Eberswalde: Verlag von Rudolf Schmidt ), 1902–1908, here: vol. 3. Berlin / Eberswalde 1905, p 547 f.

[Ludwig_Hoerner_ABC-4] Ludwig Hoerner : Foreword. In: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 , ed. from the Hannoversche Volksbank , Hannover: Reinhold, 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 .

[5] Johannes Kunisch , Michael Sikora : Gerhard von Scharnhorst , Bd. 2, Private and official writings: Chief of Staff and Reformer. Kurhannover 1795 , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2003, ISBN 3-412-16800-9 .

[6] Anton Würz : Klindworth, Karl , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 12, p. 79.

[7] Klaus Mlynek : Jerôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 324.